DeWitt admitted in his plea to hiding a camera in an employee bathroom at a city-owned apartment building that was positioned to record video for playback. Police said eight people were recorded multiple times from January 2017 to March 2018 at the Heritage High Rise apartments.

The hidden camera was positioned to record staff members in full or partial nudity to "cause arousal and sexual gratification," authorities said. The video included recordings of DeWitt masturbating, police wrote in court documents.

Deleted images from the camera were recovered on a memory card in DeWitt's cellphone, investigators said. The morning after it was removed, according to police, he texted one of the victims and said, "You found it?"

DeWitt was fired March 19 after failing to attend an interview and disciplinary meeting. He had worked for the city since 2007.